arrangement free. free. free. download free broadcast video for your media project free media r.t. dot com. egyptians vote in the final stage of the referendum on is the missed draft a constitution that sponsored violent protests and clashes that many doubt that results will quell the monthlong turmoil. moscow is one step closer to banning all adoptions of russian children by americans triggered by an increasing number of abuse cases leaving some debts unless a storm of reaction in russia. and all you don't want for christmas as festive shopping fever gathers pace we look at what gifts and risk ending up in the bed in the very next day.

live from moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. it said decisive day for egypt as people vote on the draft constitution that split the nation and triggered a month long protests the second and final leg of the referendum was preceded by a fresh outbreak of violence in egypt second largest city of alexandria where caro based journalist well true explains what's expected from the vote and whether the outcome is likely to end the turmoil. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates heads headed to the polling stations today to vote in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was about to violence as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who are for the constitution those who are against the

constitution this happened dark islamist staged a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution and the implementation of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they burned cars and buses some saying these buses belong to the muslim brotherhood police intervened with tear gas leaving seventy seven injured so this obviously comes on the after several instances of violence is in alexandria a. few weeks ago in cairo in front of presidential palace rival groups clashed leaving ten dead in terms of people are saying here on the streets the country is divided those who are against the constitution say would only enforce a presidential dictatorship that lacks a key social economic rights that was drafted by islamist dominated assembly for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy after the conditions drafted they say we will have parliamentary elections in the first round of course the vote people voted fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution and this believe that this will be another yes this is largely because of the

seventeen governorates voting today many of them a rule cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong support base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the president or in the presidential elections leading many to believe that this will in fact be a yes vote the opposition forces for their part say that the only reason that was a yes vote in the first round was due to vote rigging rights groups did document several cases of electoral violations including unsupervised polling stations leading both rights groups and the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying is actually not in the issue judicial supervision remains a point of contention here that judges continue to boycott the referendum really will just have to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on today in the early hours of tomorrow morning but definitely people expect by their own rest in the streets either way that both sides refused to back down. and bell is of course following developments in egypt so you can see her latest updates via our

twitter feed r.t. underscore com. well let's discuss the significance of today's vote and its implications with dan glazebrook an independent political analyst who joins us live now from london thanks for joining us here in r.t. the previous round of the referendum source slight majority in favor of the draft constitution what do you expect from the final round well i'll be careful it was a majority of voters slight majority of voters in favor but only turnout thirty percent and i think this reflects the real main problem with this referendum is that is being rushed through before egyptians are really had a chance to take on board the momentous are people of the last year what it signifies and also before they've had a chance to really understand what the policies of the muslim brotherhood actually are so this is all being rushed through and it's been rushed through deliberately before people had a chance to take stock and before the opposition had a chance to organize themselves as well now to get this was this is

a pretty unprecedented the biggest mass movement in egypt in fifty years what we saw the streets last year in egypt and so the opposition have not really had a chance to you to fully organize themselves to to present a clear program to the electorate and so on the muslim brotherhood of course on the other hand are organized and have been allowed actually to organize in certain spheres of egyptian right for several decades under mubarak and on his we do so to say that there's a kind of idea there's a thought of course opposition be imposed i think an exam between regime and the muslim brotherhood you know say i say sorry you say they are organize and if the constitution gets a yes vote so what actions are the opposition likely to take. well they'll be continuing continuing protests but i think that the real unrest that we're going to see in egypt is really going to start unfolding as the egyptians the muslim brotherhood economic program take this devastating toll and we've already seen the

muslim brotherhood under more the committed to ending the ten billion dollars worth of subsidies food and fuel subsidies that are a lifeline to the country's cause that this is going to have a massive effect in terms of bringing about our people and so on on rest in the country. and there's also been a very under-reported free trade agreement signed when morsi was in europe earlier this summer between jose barroso and mostly. him committing egypt to a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement with europe the basically it's going to sacrifice all economic sovereignty of egypt in terms of its ability to pass foreign imports are regulated foreign capital subsidize its own interests have a coherent economic program this is all going to be sacrifice and it seems that the e.u. has been trying for well over ten years now to implement something called the european neighborhood policy which is essentially a kind of nafta the north africa that there was the free trade agreement between us

and mexico ok ok let me just ask you this back to the constitution in the main argument against against the keystone is that it favors that is an instant betrays the revolution and meanwhile the reason is themselves that a document would ensure democracy which of those arguments holds more weight. i don't think it will bring about democracy and remember that the moses mandate is actually quite weak in the first round of but he got less than a quarter of the votes in the presidential election i'm talking about here in the second round he just straight over fifty percent and that was when he was up against canada and widely regarded as representing the former regime. so his mandate is we keep trying to do is attempting to shore up his legitimacy with this constitution so he can claim a mandate it's interesting that they have the vote in the going on now the second round of constitutional referendum voting in the rural areas and that's in your

court you said though the muslim brotherhood are quite strong in the rural areas that support bases many amongst the rural rich in the countryside and that's a fact there's been a huge amount of unrest because the mubarak regime had a fall term policies that were read detrimental to the rural poll. much resulted in basically lifting any of the kind of state protection or hasn't passed against landowners resulting in the tripling of ground rent tripling of interest rates and so on there was huge unrest over the past few years growing unrest in the countryside among people present and the muslim brotherhood actually came out against this unrest so there is a constituency or pull of the whole rural dwellers in egypt you're not necessarily with the muslim brotherhood but again they're rushing it through before they happen before people get a chance to really understand the implications of that economic policy which will be devastating and continuing that the kind of iraq policy and actually deepening

of our policy of opening up to the diktats of global capital i would have a devastating effect and they're hoping people are going to vote according to their religious identity rather than calling for a full analysis of actual policy without really had a time a chance to do yes so it's not it's not democratic you know as much as november really reflects the will of that. people want to national independent country they're fed up of being dictated to by the us they're fed up of being on our side so we design a germany region and asking the muslim brotherhood under morsy actually helping to facilitate runs through germany by supporting regime change against all israel's enemies in the region like syria and by opening up to global capital which will sacrifice all economic sovereignty that's not what the people want ok after they get there at a time downplays broke independent political analysis to live from london thank you thank you. our five hundred dollars that's the cost of a us marine sergeant will pay for your innate on the bodies of dead afghan soldiers

he was demoted and c. is paid docked after admitting to desecration political activist david swanson says the sentence is too lenient and highlights how the us military has lost touch with reality in afghanistan. it's absurdly low it's insultingly low but so is the charge and i mean this is someone guilty of creating corpses of chilean human beings who is then prosecuted for having desecrated them after the fact this is this is the problem with our culture of violence that we that we think we're going to civilized war that if we didn't cut off the fingers and you're an aid on the bodies then it would be ok so we have a long ways to go to get into to a better legal as well as moral understanding because americans like to think that their government must have some justification for what it does it builds the idea that it is folk a to occupy the nations of other people that we had an incident

this week in the united states of other former soldier attacking a mosque to seek revenge for u.s. soldiers who had lost their lives of broad without stopping to understand that they were occupying someone else's country so we have this rule in hatred for muslims for afghans for pakistanis in the united states it is it is the doing of the u.s. government and its occupations and its drone wars but the longer they go on the more the ill will builds both at home and of course in the nations be not tied and been subjected to drone strikes or the case has that once again highlighted concerns over america's continuing presence in afghanistan where president obama says he's hoping to turn a page on a decade of war or to naming senator john kerry as the next secretary of state and ivan eland defense honest to the kerry's appointment could lead to

a less aggressive u.s. foreign policy. we're in fiscal crisis here and i think we're going to have to retract the clause of the empire as we speak and i think no nothing was ever done about that maybe john kerry will change he probably won't change dramatically because i think united states is into the. perception of running the world and i just don't think we can do it financially and i don't even think it's desirable but i think you know what we went into libya we went into we put more troops in afghanistan those were bad moves in my opinion so i think. you may have a more dovish line coming from kerry than you did from hillary clinton i think even though you're watching r t still ahead for you the problems continue to mount for greece now four of the country's banks are looking for ways to stay afloat after the posting of massive losses we take a closer look like plus. look in my career i was minister of original

corporation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigrant an assumption and minister of justice even held this post flee israel has for elections i mean increasing concerns over the country's political processes . as the clocks countdown to christmas many people will be making a last minute to the shops but think twice before just seeing that novelty present as the recipients might not be that grateful auntie's pony boy explains from the hustle and bustle of london. most of us know the problem for someone celebrating after the twentieth christmas buying a present can be perplexing there's nothing they need or don't own already hugh the invention of your humorous christmas present for example the christmas jumper what happens to these presents the day after christmas i've been given this christmas presents every christmas and turning them away on boxing day. or probably give it

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all for of greece's not just banks queuing up for a bailout but you start to reporting huge losses this year together they'll need around twenty seven billion euros with a lens to stay afloat greece has been relying on international bailout funds since twenty ten and does economist dimitrius you know all this says it's ordinary greeks who are bearing the brunt of the bank's losses. the loans on which. this recapitalization bank sector is going to take priests are coming from the the troika the e.u. the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. and they are going to be aid they're going to be part of the greek it national debt which is going to be paid by the greek taxpayer and we had forty thousand small businesses closing in this year alone three hundred additional thousand of which

are job losses as a total unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really. on the one hand austerity on the other hand bank inability to provide liquidity for the market or for a wider outlook where the global economy stands at the end of twenty twelve that see into the kaiser report at sixteen thirty g.m.t. . now a bill prohibiting u.s. citizens from adopting russian children has been passed by the lower house of parliament in moscow almost unanimous the vote comes after a series of child abuse cases abroad and it's a chicken looks at the stories which lead to the latest measures. the adoption agreement that russia and the us signed in of them here was designed to provide mechanisms for oversight for russian children adopted by american

families but moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children stored here are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized there is untold numbers of children that are enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their gifts that are just surviving the case of alan who was adopted from russia and she was placed in the home of a tete a file she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting and she told reporters and such that she waited every day and kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency that placed her there would come back and check on her and she would have been able

to tell them but nobody ever came much of the fury in moscow over the brutal treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american justice of shown towards a number of abusers the adoptive father of two year olds in my jacket he was acquitted after he forgot the boy his car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the quavers have dodged a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges have also shown leniency in cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child jessica bigley received probation after she went on a popular t.v. show and bragged of how she disciplined her adopted russian child by systematically cramming hot sauce into his mouth and putting him under

a cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another washing point of who was allegedly abused by his foster parents according florida quote it at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation of u.s. adoptions seems even more dire the u.s. accounts for around a third of all foreign adoptions in russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year but the latest developments over whether that good work can continue the argument that if there is before i don't chance for an orphan to find a happy home that should be given that chance is undoubted but just as indisputable seems the or given that there has to be more oversight over the well being of these children because with the way things are now dozens of adoptive children could be subject to abuse right at this moment and we may never find out in washington i'm going to come. on now to some other international news in very. have again.

the ascendance resource to searching for a sixth man in connection with a crime. for israel the new year will be mark spahn election for the new parliament earlier than planned for many frequent voting is the embodiment of democracy the right to turn around ministers and government sees the need to calls for an overhaul of the entire political system there are reports now. call us money as you know i'm back in my political career i was minister of regional cooperation

minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigrant and his option and minister of justice even held this post simul tenuously but it doesn't mean i'm talented it just shows that the system is so messed up the toys. it's a system that's been in place since the founding of the state sixty four years ago it's seen thirty four governments in sixty four years that's a new israeli government almost every two years and a new minister just as often in the last twenty years there have been twenty interior ministers fourteen foreign ministers and fifteen justice ministers and now more and more israelis are saying enough and joining a movement to change the political system as. a young citizen ghost elections so many times who starts to lose the sense that this is a democracy not been nothing of the past ten years voter turnout has decreased from eighty to sixty four percent with. kirillov's it themselves as it was.

but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online campaign by local celebrities shows whenever someone tries to talk about it they're interrupted. blah blah blah. much as our prime minister says he must call for elections because he can't pass the budget he's scared that his coalition members may bring down his government and we will act as if. we really say there's no problem with our system. critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. one a sham or that the system here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra orthodox ultra rightists right wing extremists and so on and in fact the soon to be becomes a hostage to these marginal groups there is no democracy there's minor roots when crissy the minority rule with

a majority what for. another problem is that because government ministers change so often they can't plan. today a minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision and the long term planning he's no longer there. what many of these people want is a complete overhaul of the system with parliamentary elections slated for early next year israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but they talk of and is running fan with latest figures suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with his government's performance points here r.t. tel aviv. well our capital account is coming up in just a few minutes. if

you're passing through rushes to via region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just the less forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have

a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. now this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf i had a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here using the old rules as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique that they would every i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will

mean that we foil and remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm more in leicester here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday december twenty first two thousand and twelve today is a good time to reflect on this. now which predicts. on the twenty first except this year. that would be to day and the world didn't end i think it's fair to say so we will reflect on what may lie ahead in the coming new year or flecked on this fear and economic trends dave column is a cornell chemistry professor but he's known in finance for his annual year in review which is out today and he is here in studio to talk about it.